Louth Green Party

"To have seen on television the emotional response from the people of Derry to the findings of the report and to Prime Minister Cameron's House of Commons statement of apology was deeply moving. In so far as it is possible it marks the end of thirty eight years of pain following" the unjustified and unjustifiable", murder of fourteen innocent marchers on the day, a pain compounded by the cover up of the Widgery Report"

In the Senate earlier in the day Senator Dearey expressed the hope that the report from Lord Saville would utterly exonerate those impuned by Widgery, whose report Dearey said, "should be obliterated from history".